Grocery giant Tesco has hired the boss of BT’s super-fast broadband division on to its board.

Olivia Garfield, chief
executive of BT’s Openreach since 2011, is joining the world’s third-largest
retailer as a non-executive. She has been at BT since 2002, including as group
strategy director at the telecoms firm, and before then worked at
Accenture as a consultant.